9 Chapter 7 A Good Apple

Chapter 7 A Good Apple A "good apple" is a nickname for someone who is a good person. Johnny Appleseed was a good apple. Sometimes he helped settlers build cabins or chop trees. He knew they were struggling to make new lives for themselves in the west. If people couldn't pay, he traded apple seedlings or gave them away for free.

“好苹果”是对好人的昵称。 苹果籽约翰尼是个好苹果。 有时他帮助定居者建造小屋或砍伐树木。 他知道他们正在为在西部开创新生活而奋斗。 如果人们付不起钱，他就用苹果苗交换或者免费赠送。

Johnny usually brought gifts when he visited settlers' cabins. He loved children and brought them bits of ribbon or interesting things he found in the woods. Most pioneer children had only a

约翰尼参观移民的小木屋时通常会带礼物。 他喜欢孩子，经常给他们带来他在树林里找到的丝带或有趣的东西。 大多数拓荒者的孩子只有一个

few homemade toys. For fun, they rolled barrel hoops, played with rag dolls, and rode ponies carved from wood. They were glad to get anything new to play with. Johnny also gave settlers herbs such as dandelion or catnip, which were used as medicine. Polite settlers invited him to stay overnight in their cabins. Even when they offered him a bed, he insisted on sleeping on the cabin floor or outside on the ground. Sleeping outdoors was one of

很少有自制玩具。为了好玩，他们滚桶圈，玩布娃娃，骑木雕小马。 他们很高兴有新的东西可以玩。 约翰尼还把蒲公英或猫薄荷等草药作为药物送给了定居者。 有礼貌的定居者邀请他在他们的小屋里过夜。 即使他们给他一张床，他也坚持睡在船舱的地板上或外面的地上。 睡在户外就是其中之一

Johnny's favorite things to do. He covered himself with a blanket of leaves to keep warm. If the weather was bad, he would quickly build a crude hut or sleep in a hollow tree. During his visits, Johnny read aloud from books he always carried. They were written by a man named Emanuel Swedenborg. The New Church was created to follow his beliefs. Swedenborg believed that helping others was a good way to find happiness. He believed in the importance of

约翰尼最喜欢做的事情。 他用树叶盖了条毯子取暖。 如果天气不好，他会很快搭个简陋的小屋，或者睡在树洞里。 在他来访的时候，约翰尼大声朗读他随身携带的书。 它们是一个叫伊曼纽尔·斯威登堡的人写的。 新教会是按照他的信仰建立的。 斯威登伯格认为帮助别人是找到快乐的好方法。 他相信……的重要性

thinking for yourself and deciding how to live a useful life. Swedenborg believed people should not be afraid to be different. You can see why Johnny liked these ideas. It's uncertain when Johnny first became interested in the New Church, but he was so excited about its ideas that he wanted to share them. Since he didn't own many of Swedenborg's books, he divided those he had into sections. He

独立思考，决定如何过一种有用的生活。 斯威登伯格认为，人们不应该害怕与众不同。 你知道为什么约翰尼喜欢这些想法了吧。 约翰尼第一次对新教会感兴趣是什么时候，我们不得而知，但他对新教会的理念非常兴奋，想要与人分享。 由于他没有很多斯韦登堡的书，他把自己有的书分成了几个部分。 他

would lend one section to a pioneer family. Then on his next visit, he would exchange it for the next section of the book. Johnny was a vegetarian, so he didn't eat meat served at settlers' dinner tables. He believed it was wrong to kill animals. Pioneers hunted for food and thought his belief was strange. While traveling in the forest, Johnny boiled creek water in his cooking pot, adding berries, grain, or potatoes to make a meal. He also may have taken some "journey bread" on his trips in the forest. This was bread that Native Americans taught him to make from corn. There are many stories about Johnny's kindness toward wildlife. He fed squirrels and birds and released animals from traps. He bought abused animals and found people who would care for

会把一部分借给一个拓荒者家庭。 然后在他下次来访时，他会用它来交换书的下一部分。 约翰尼是一个素食主义者，所以他不吃移民餐桌上的肉。 他认为杀害动物是不对的。 拓荒者们四处寻找食物，认为他的信仰很奇怪。 在森林里旅行时，约翰尼在他的锅里煮溪水，加入浆果、谷物或土豆来做一顿饭。 他也可能在森林旅行中带了一些“旅行面包”。 这是印第安人教他用玉米做的面包。 有很多关于约翰尼善待野生动物的故事。 他喂松鼠和鸟，把动物从陷阱里放出来。 他买了被虐待的动物，并找到了愿意照顾它们的人